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While Hawaii’s unemployment rate edged up slightly in August, reaching 7.2 percent, the unemployment figures actually dropped on Molokai. Figures released by the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations show 46,050 people were unemployed last month, or 850 more than July when the jobless rate was 7.0 percent. Molokai still has the high unemployment [...]
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In news that will interest many Hawaiian natives, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye announced recently that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands will receive $9.7 million to upgrade existing homes, acquire properties, and administer an array of services. The DHHL will receive a grant totaling $9,700,789. The funding is in conjunction with the Native Hawaiian [...]
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The Molokai Farmers girls volleyball team kept its winning ways going this past weekend with two victories over Kihei Charter at the Barn on Friday and Saturday. On Friday night, Leenell Hernandez and Jamie Duvauchelle led the Farmers with six kills each. Junior Kalei Adolpho finished with five kills as Molokai won in three straight [...]
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Maui County Council today is considering Maui County Bill 09-100 banning the genetic modification of kalo. Hoolehua resident and political activist Walter Ritte will speak before the council to urge politicians, the biotechnology companies and educational institutions to keep their hands off taro. Ritte believes that kalo is not to be manipulated or experimented with [...]
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It is time for Maui County Mayor Charmaine Tavares to make the rounds in a series of public meetings to discuss the county’s 2010-2011 budget. The public is invited to voice priorities and to pose questions about the budget process. On Molokai the budget meeting will be Wednesday, September 30 at 5 p.m. at the [...]
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Back in March, the U.S. Congress established a memorial within Kalaupapa National Historical Park to honor and remember Hansen’s disease patients who were forcibly sent to the peninsula from 1866 to 1969. Of approximately 8,000 patients buried at Kalaupapa, only about 1,300 have marked graves. Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, a group of Hansen’s disease patients, [...]
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Last week, Governor Linda Lingle appointed five Molokai volunteers to serve on the Council of Neighbor Island Advisors for Molokai. Four of the five have served in this group last year when the group was known as the Governor’s Advisory Council. They are: Robert Granger who is now retired and was director of research for [...]
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Cruising the Kaunakakai wharf is a popular pastime on Molokai. Now, one of the most well known cruisers of the harbor area, the monk seal KP2, may be relocated to a new home. Seventeen-month-old monk seal KP2 became the first Hawaiian monk seal to be hand-reared by wildlife experts after being abandoned by his mother [...]
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Next home games Friday night and Saturday against Kihei at The Barn In volleyball, the wahine Farmers swept Lanai in three straight sets both Friday night and again on Saturday in the team’s home opener. Kalei Vaivai had nine kills in Saturday’s match as Molokai topped Lanai, 25-13, 25-8, 25-15. Kalei Adolpho had eight kills [...]
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Mackenzie Miller of Kailua became the youngest person ever to swim across the 26-mile Kaiwi Channel at 18 years old. Miller swam up to Sandy’s Beach 14 hours and 45 minutes after leaving La’au Point at 3 a.m. Saturday. Conditions were reasonable until about halfway across. It became progressively rougher. At about 3:30 p.m., a [...]
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